Senior Perception Engineer – Spatial Understanding & Navigation

Description

• Develop and implement scene understanding and 3D reconstruction methods that give robots persistent spatial memory and geometric awareness.
• Design and scale auto-labeling and large-scale data pipelines to train and evaluate multimodal models for navigation and interaction.
• Collaborate with cross-functional research and engineering teams to bring large vision-language models into real-world robotic systems.
• Develop next-generation spatial understanding systems for robot locomotion and manipulation, integrating perception and high-level reasoning.
• Work on open-ended navigation powered by Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models — enabling robots to understand context, predict intent, and act in complex, dynamic environments.
• Collaboration with top‑tier engineers, researchers, and product experts in AI and robotics
• Stay ahead of the field — rapidly evaluate new model architectures, benchmarks, and datasets to guide our embodied AI roadmap

Requirements

• Strong background in scene understanding, spatial reasoning, or 3D reconstruction from visual data.
• Strong experimental and research skills — capable of taking projects from concept to model training, evaluation, and robot integration.
• Deep experience in machine learning for vision or embodied AI, ideally with large models (VLMs, VLAs, transformers, diffusion, or multi-modal architectures).
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, research-driven environment with evolving models, data, and tools.
• Proficiency in PyTorch and hands-on experience building, fine-tuning, and deploying large-scale ML systems.
• Freedom to influence the product and own key initiatives

Benefits

• Travel opportunities to our Vancouver and Boston offices
• Competitive salary plus participation in our Stock Option Plan
• Office perks: free breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and regular team events
• Paid vacation with adjustments based on your location to comply with local labor laws, and additional paid sick leave days

Training + Development

Interview process

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Security clearance